A Concise History of Ireland

Irish History.

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by P. W. Joyce

Index.

Irish Literature | Ecclesiastical Writings | Annals, Histories, Genealogies | Historical and Romantic Tales

The Brehon Laws | Irish Music | The Law of Compensation | Grades and Groupes of Society
The Tenure of Land | Irish Art

The Kings of Pagan Ireland | The Legends of Early Colonies | Various Customs
Dwellings, Fortresses, Ecclesiastical Buildings | Saint Patrick

Early Christian Ireland | Religion and Learning | The Danish Wars | Brian Boru
The Battle of Clontarf

Preparing the Way For the Invader | The Period of Invasion | Dermot MacMorrough
The First Anglo-Norman Adventures (1169-1171) | King Henry in Ireland (1171-1173)

Raymond Le Gross (1173-1176) | John De Courcy (1177-1204) | King John in Ireland (1189-1210)
A Century of Turmoil (1210-1314) | Edward Bruce (1315-1318)

The Statute of Kilkenny (1318-1377) | Art MacMurrough Kavanagh (1377-1417)
During the Wars of the Roses (1413-1485)

Poynings' Law (1485-1494) | Garrett, The Great Earl of Kildare (1477-1513)
Garrett, Ninth Earl of Kildare (1513-1534) | The Rebellion of Silken Thomas (1534-1537)
General Submission (1535-1547)

New Causes of Strife | The State Religion | Shane O'Neill (1547-1567) | The Geraldine Rebellion (1565-1583)
The Plantation | Hugh Roe O'Donnell (1594-1592) | Hugh O'Neill Earl of Tyrone (1585-1594)

The Rebellion of Hugh O'Neill (1595-1597) | The Battle of Yellow Ford (1597-1598) | The Earl of Essex (1599-1600)
Lord Mountjoy and Sir George Carew (1600-1601) | The Siege and battle of Kinsale (1601-1602)

The Siege of Dunboy (1602) | The Retreat of O'Sullivan Beare (1603) | The Flight of the Earls (1602-1608)
The Plantation of Ulster (1605-1625) | The Graces (1625-1641)

The 1641 Rebellion (1641-1642) | The Confederation of Kilkenny (1642-1649) | Cromwell (1642-1649)
The Cromwellian Plantation (1652-1658)

Restoration and Compromise (1658-1665) | Religious Troubles After the Restoration (1665-1685)
James the Second (1665-1685) | The Siege of Derry (1688-1689) | The Battle of the Boyne (1689-1690)

The Siege of Limerick (1690) | The Siege of Athlone and the Battle of Aughrim (1690)
The Second Siege and Treaty of Limerick (1691-1695)

The Period of Penal Laws (1695-1829) | The Penal Code | Restrictions On Irish Trade and Manufacture
The Sixth of George I. | Struggles for Parlimentary Independance

The Expedition of Thurot (1759-1760) | Secret Societies (1760-1762)
Progress Towards Parlimentary Independance (1762-1772) | The American War and its Effects on Ireland (1772-1778)

The Volunteers (1778-1779) | The Dawn (1779-1782) | Legislative Independance (1782-1783)

Parliamentary and Commercial Reform (1783-1785) | More Secret Societies (1785-1790)
An Instalment of Emancipation (1790-1792) | Disappointed Hopes (1793-1795) | Drifting Towards Rebellion (1793-1795)

The Rebellion of 1798 | The Union (1799-1800) | Robert Emmet's Insurrection (1800-1803)
Daniel O'Connell (1803-1822) | Catholic Emancipation (1823-1829)

The Tithe War | The Death of O'Connell | Parnell | To the Death of Parnell
Industrial Progress | Note on the Formation of Counties

The End